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And with that, I'm tagging The Green Hornet as a bomb. Sure, we're still exactly a year away from the movie being released, but this film is turning the phrase "no news is good news" on its head: Anything we hear is bad news.

Whenever it was, nine months ago or something, the Seth Rogen star vehicle picked up steam with the spot-on selection of Stephen Chow to not only play The Green Hornet's trusty bad-ass manservant Kato but also to direct. It's perfect. That didn't last, though. Chow walked away from directing, dropping hints that he might not even be in the film.

Enter Michel Gondry. He's a great director, no question, but is he the right guy for this job? Would you hire Francis Ford Copolla to make a movie about a 40-year-old boy in the fifth grade? Someone did; that movie is Jack. The point is, Gondry is at best an odd choice for a mainstream Seth Rogen action comedy.

The rumored addition of Cameron Diaz doesn't help, either, although it probably won't hurt in the long run. But now, Spoiler TV (via Slashfilm) has a new casting announcement for Kato. Stephen Chow, apparently, is dunzo. And because he was the only thing I was really looking forward to anyway, so is the movie.

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